nd often getting a terrific wound himself at the
same time. As soon as he had seized the wolf and was rolling over with
him in the grapple the other dogs joined in the fray and dispatched the
quarry without much danger to themselves.

During the last decade many ranchmen in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana,
have developed packs of greyhounds able to kill a wolf unassisted.
Greyhounds trained for this purpose always seize by the throat; and
the light dogs used for coursing jack-rabbits are not of much service,
smooth or rough-haired greyhounds and deer-hounds standing over thirty
inches at the shoulder and weighing over ninety pounds being the only
ones that, together with speed, courage, and endurance, possess the
requisite power.

One of the most famous packs in the West was that of the Sun River Round
Club, in Montana, started by the stockmen of Sun River to get rid of the
curse of wolves which infested the neighborhood and worked very serious
damage to the herds and flocks. The pack was composed of both greyhounds
and deer-hounds, the best being from the kennels of Colonel Williams and
of Mr. Van Hummel, of Denver; they were handled by an old plainsman and
veteran wolf-hunter named Porter. In the season of '86 the astonishing
number of 146 wolves were killed with these dogs. Ordinarily, as soon
as the dogs seized a wolf, and threw or held it, Porter rushed in and
stabbed it with his hunting-knife; one day, when out with six hounds,
he thus killed no less than twelve out of the fifteen wolves started,
though one of the greyhounds was killed, and all the others were cut and
exhausted. But often the wolves were killed without his aid. The first
time the two biggest hounds--deer-hounds or wire-haired greyhounds--were
tried, when they had been at the ranch only three days, they performed
such a feat. A large wolf had killed and partially eaten a sheep in a
corral close to the ranch house, and Porter started on the trail, and
followed him at a jog-trot nearly ten miles before the hounds sighted
him. Running but a few rods, he turned viciously to bay, and the two
great greyhounds struck him like stones hurled from a catapult, throwing
him as they fastened on his throat; they held him down and strangled him
before he could rise, two other hounds getting up just in time to help
at the end of the worry.

Ordinarily, however, no two greyhounds or deer-hounds are a match for a
gray wolf, but I have known of several instances in